The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a pro-interventionist NGO supported largely by grants from large armsmakers like Raytheon and General Dynamics, is predicting a major ISIS campaign of jailbreaks in both Iraq and Syria to free “thousands” of ISIS loyalists.
The report echoes a recent speech from ISIS leader al-Baghdadi, who
talked of freeing people from prison camps around the area, and amid
recent media reports of ISIS recruiting within those major camps. ISW
predicted it would happen in the coming month.
The ISW presented this as a sign of the “unrepentant attitude” of ISIS
followers after military defeats in Iraq and Syria. The ISW interest in
this story, however, is almost certainly US policy centered, as opposed
to a serious prediction of the timing of an ISIS jailbreak.
That’s because ISW’s ideology, and the financial interest of its donors,
would benefit from the ISIS war continuing, and from the Trump
Administration keeping a large presence in Iraq and Syria waiting for
new fights to break out, and always buying the latest costly gear to do
so.
Jailbreaks? They’re running out of drug addled youth to send out to die. The desperation is so thick, you could frost a cake with it. They need to give up and leave Syria and Iraq alone (and get your Stryker brigades off their oil wells). Hasn’t the unbroken string of humiliating failures not clued them in to reality yet? Whose money is being spent on this charade they call “fighting terrorism”?